Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. He received his Ph.D.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In September 2015, the XQ Institute put out an open call to rethink and design the next American high school through their XQ: Super School Project – perhaps the largest school-redesign challenge in the nation’s history.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Famous Black Scientists Who Made History Feb 8, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Our world would look very different without the scientists who have made breakthroughs in our technology and advanced our understanding of medicine, astronomy, physics, and chemistry.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The day we were awarded the opportunity to participate in this initiative back in 2015 is a day that is forever ingrained in my memory. Before the 2015-16 school year, our school had just two laptop carts with 20 laptops each that were shared among all of our classes. Science teachers were engaging students in virtual lab experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. But until 2011, civil rights history was not part of the required curriculum in Mississippi public schools. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We discovered his first teeth in 2015 lying on the ground at the cave’s entrance, barely covered by a few leaves. Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Elusive History of Silk Silk has long been central to Chinese civilization and global trade, giving its name to the famed Silk Road. “These findings connect the Shu State’s ritual practices to a broader history of technological and cultural innovation in silk production,” the researchers added. Langford, H.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Current Biology , 2015. DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45 Ersmark, E.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Goodman, M.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations. The Neanderthal fossil was found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter (shown) in France. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E. Southern Oral History Program Collection, October 11, 1976. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Maybe more people should know that predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color. Related: Debt Without Degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”. But wealth begets wealth in this country.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For about 29 years, Pell funding had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program that debuted in 2015. Darryl Baca — the student who praised Mariscal after his classroom speech — epitomizes the entire history of Pelican Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. However, the 2015 discovery of 3.3 The hand bones of Australopithecus sediba. A new study shows that A.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A 2015 study found that students who had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register. In 2015, the state required some colleges to allow them to stay in dorms over academic breaks for free.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

Five of these awards are new for 2015, including: The Parents as Partners award recognizes an educator who engages parents and caregivers in creative ways to support student learning in and outside the classroom. .” Check out last year’s winning video submissions here.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The genomic history of southeastern Europe." Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy. Additional Related Research Pinhasi, R., Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia." Nature, 514(7523), 445-449. Current Biology, 31(5), 1110-1120. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.029

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015. The harsh reality is that school shootings have become alarmingly routine.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. Never have we had so much information at our fingertips,” the study’s authors wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education. I don’t think so.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Ten percent identify themselves as multiracial.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. recently published his seventh book and is a history professor at the College of Charleston. Rural school districts sued the state for more resources in the late 1990s and finally won their case in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo is pictured here in 2015 recording a #gocrickets podcast with his daughter Alena, then a third-grader. Since 2015, the district’s teachers have used #mashpee on Twitter to show off student achievement and to post classroom announcements, including homework reminders. Photo: Cindy Kolpien.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Michael Francis, who was a keynote speaker at the 2015 NCHE conference held in St. In October 2022, we realized that funds in our TPS grant would enable us to offer an additional colloquium in the spring of 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Morrison was reflecting on her 45-year career crafting some of the most moving and important novels in American history, days before publishing her 11th and final novel, God Help the Child , in 2015. Morrison’s fiction is often rooted in historical fact, including the bloodshed and violence that continue to mar American history.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since race and income are highly correlated due to the pervasive discrimination that has blighted this nation’s history, whiter districts receive more money than majority-minority districts. Predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the proportion of students taking advanced classes rose to a third, the highest percentage in district history. Until 10th grade, students take the same mathematics classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our political reporting classes had grown out of student reporting trips we took to Cuba, where we covered emerging entrepreneurism in 2015 , the arts in 2016 , and the local environment in 2017. To engage students, she will assign student teams – essential to building community in online classes – to research history and context for lessons.

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